Exploring the Jungle

Some of the children's wild jungle artwork.

This week we are learning about the letter ‘P’. We also started learning about different animal habitats, beginning with the jungle.

On Monday & Tuesday, we read the book Animal Boogie by Debbie Harter. After reading the book, we sang and danced the animal boogie, with a shake, shake, boogie, woogie, oogie!

In music, we explored percussion instruments, which are played by hitting or shaking (drums, maracas, cymbals, triangles, etc.). We played the conductor game, and the children learned the hand signals for start, stop, loud and quiet.

Henri Rousseau, a French folk artist who liked to paint jungle scenes, was our inspiration for art. The children made their own jungle pictures using construction paper, foam animal stickers, crayons and markers.